The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 12 i686 (GNOME) - Page 5

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To install RealPlayer, visit http://www.real.com/linux/ in Firefox and download the RPM package (don't hit the big yellow Download RealPlayer button, but use the small link RPM Package below it instead):

Select Open with Package Installer (default) in the Firefox download dialogue:

The Package Installer will then come up and guide you through the installation.

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This will bring you to SourceForge, and after a few seconds the Firefox download dialogue should pop up (if it does not, click on direct link) where you select Open with Package Installer (default), as usual:

In what respect is Linux a replacement for Windows? Or Gimp for PS? They're not the same, they're just different ways of doing the same thing. Linux very often does things better, and gives you a lot more choice, as well.You seem to be trying to make Fedora 12 "Windows like", while I would say that Fedora has it's own virtues and can be appreciated as such. Having the ability to play this or that type of file isn't really "Windows Like", as MS has so aften been behind the eight ball on these things, the internet, for instance. Consider how slow IE was to get tabbed browsing, and pop-up blocking. Maybe MS Windows is a replacement, a poor one in my estimation, for Linux. I can't help but notice how much closed source software you install above.

Autoten automates much of the multi-media installation, and is available here: http://dnmouse.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=105&f=2.

Lastly, I won't create a account just to download a PDF. That's a dealbreaker for me. Kurt

I must respectfully disagree with kurtdriver. The fact is, Microsoft is the #1 operating system today, worldwide. There are many reasons why Coporations, Governments and regular people choose to use Windows, but one of the primary reasons, in my opinion, is ease of use and familiarity. What the author of the Perfect Desktop series is trying to do is making Linux distributions as 'easy-to-use' as Windows, for the regular user.

One of the major drawbacks of Fedora for me, when I first embraced Linux, and the reason I chose to use Ubuntu as my original distribution, was the difficulty of getting close-source codecs so that Rythymbox could perform the simple act of playing my music and allowing me to watch my movies in Totem. In Ubuntu, at the time, it was a no-brainer. In Fedora it was a 'hassle'.

I heartily commend the author of this series for his hard work and dedication to the making of various distributions as 'idiot-proof' and complete... as Windows-like, if you will ... as possible. All in one document.

I disagree with some of the author's choices (two versions of everything, from p2p to browsers, for instance), but for ease of use, this series is simply amazing. Personally, I use my own father as my lightning-rod. He is from before the Internet generation and only acquired his first computer two years ago. He was as clueless about how to make the thing go as anyone I could imagine. He didn't want to spend hundreds of dollars of his retirement buying various software and had heard me talk free and open-source. I pointed him to this guide specifically, and he is now a happy camper.

As a relative linux newbie this guide has been invaluable in helping me move away from Windoze and getting almost a life-for-like replacement.I think you're getting into a semantic argument "different ways of doing the same thing" means that one can replace the other.

I've tried autoten too, and it's good but I've had problems with it whereas this gives me finer control and above all helps me to LEARN how to use Linux which is the only way that Linux can grow in the wider community.